Holiday 14
April Fool's Day
April 1 — fixed date
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When it falls
April 1 — fixed date.
Worked dates:
| Year | Date |
|---|---|
| 2026 | April 1 |
| 2030 | April 1 |
| 2050 | April 1 |
What it shows on the island
From holidays.yml:
Whoopee cushion and clown nose.
Sprite
Dimensions: 32 × 32 pixels. Anchored at island position (404, 284).
Added by this port via the holiday expansion. existing_sprite: null. The visual is a 32x32 transparent emblem authored by an AI sub-agent in the shared 16-color CLUT defined in scripts/holidays_art_lib.py. It overlays the island corner during the holiday’s window rather than reskinning the scene.
Palette
#FFD93D, #E63946, #3A86FF
Three-color hint from holidays.yml. This is a guide for the codegen step and the emblem authoring pass; the actual emblem samples from the shared 16-color CLUT, and the original Sierra sprites use the original game palette directly.
Algorithm
Fixed date — no computation; the HOLIDAY_KIND_FIXED dispatch in holidayForDate compares month and day directly. See Date-algorithm core.
Emblem
This holiday has an emblem on the shared sheet at cell 9, pixel offset (32, 32). View the packed sheet on GitHub: docs/ps1/holidays-emblems/holiday-emblems-sheet.png. Full index: Emblem gallery.
Source
- Row in
holidays.yml(search forid: 14orshort_name: "APRIL FOOL"). - Generated row in
src/holidays_table.c.